Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

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Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

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My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome back to the show,

the one and only Dr. Jeff Cripple.

Dr. Cripple holds the J Newton Razor chair

in Philosophy and Religious Thought

at Rice University and is the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at Enceline.

He joins us today to talk about his latest book, The Flip.

Quick note before we begin, there were some complications getting through to Dr.

Cripple's office line from Skype so I called his cell phone instead.

For the most part it's completely clear but there are a few dropouts because you know cell phones. Nothing too

distracting though. Let's do it. The prolific Dr Jeff welcome back.

Thanks, thanks Carter and thanks for having me back. Thanks, Carter, and thanks for having me back.

Well, absolutely. I mean, I, you know, I love our chats and your latest book was, uh, yes, a real page Turner.

So I guess we should probably start with the obvious question.

What's the flip?

So the flip is my expression for trained intellectuals, primarily scientists and philosophers and

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